All good things must come to an end!
It was time for us to head south, the Germans were running out of money and needed work, and we had other adventures awaiting us. We all said our goodbyes, they headed towards Cairns and we set sights on Captain Billys Landing with Pete's family.
Back over the very shallow Jardine with the barge barely able to drag itself over the sandy bottom, we actually walked about 1/2 way across ankle deep for a pic.
We stopped at Fruit Bat Falls for one last swim on the way before turning off onto the track to take us to Captain Billys. This track would really test my patients. Not difficult, but slow going over the many excessive erosion mounds that seemed oversized for no apparent reason.
We arrived to a very windy beach with a lot of cloud cover for a couple of nights. At low tide we explored the caves and their inhabitants of small bats. The weather didn't let up for the 3 days we were there so I was glad when we left, so over the wind lol.
Bats
We had decided that the next day we would tackle the south end of the Old Telegraph Track solo (south bound), after talking to others who had recently done it. Pete's family would be heading to Weipa after we found some serious cracks in the chassis of his camper trailer, among many other issues and failures he was facing on both the camper and the hilux.
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